This book has been composed with non-professional historians in mind. It contains information on Russia's history gathered from standard Russian history texts from the times of Slavic migrations into Eastern Europe through the period of Kievan Rus and its component princedoms and the development of one of them. It also contains information not usually seen in standard texts by the use of monographs that describe events in Russian history in great detail. English and Russian-language newspaper and magazine articles were also utilized as were commentaries by various individuals including the…mehr
This book has been composed with non-professional historians in mind. It contains information on Russia's history gathered from standard Russian history texts from the times of Slavic migrations into Eastern Europe through the period of Kievan Rus and its component princedoms and the development of one of them. It also contains information not usually seen in standard texts by the use of monographs that describe events in Russian history in great detail. English and Russian-language newspaper and magazine articles were also utilized as were commentaries by various individuals including the author. The collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 is described in some detail. The book mention anti-Russian attitudes of the American press that have existed in the U.S. since the mid-19th century and how they affected the demise of the Russian monarchy. The last chapter is concerned with the establishment of the Soviet regime in Russia and how its severity compares to the tsarist empire.
Anatoly Bezkorovainy was born in Riga, Latvia in 1935, of Russian parents, who had left Russia in the early 1920s following the Bolshevik revolution. They were married in Riga in 1930. In 1944, the Bezkorovainys left Latvia for Germany, where, after the war, they stayed in a refugee camp, where Anatoly graduated from its Latvian elementary school and attended a German high school. In 1951, the family emigrated to the U.S., settling in Chicago, Illinois. In 1953, Anatoly graduated from a Chicago public high school, then from the University of Chicago in 1956. He then entered the University of Illinois Graduate College, graduating in 1960 with a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry. He then worked at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then at the National Animal Disease Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. In 1962, he became an Assistant Professor at Chicago's Rush University, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004. There, Anatoly achieved the rank of full Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, served as an Associate Chairman of the Department and director of its educational programs. He now carries the rank of Professor Emeritus. He has listed Marquis Who's Who in America as a medical educator. He has (co)authored 6 books and numerous research papers in the areas of iron metabolism, bacterial physiology, and science history in Imperial Russia. In 1992, he co-authored a book on the history of Chicago's Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox parish. Throughout his life, Anatoly has been a member of various Orthodox parishes and has participated in the activities of the Russian immigrant community in Chicago.In 1964, Anatoly married Marilyn Grib. They have two sons, Gregory and Alexander. Anatoly and his wife live in retirement near Galena, Illinois. Occasionally, he gives lectures on biochemical topics at Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago.
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